{"nrhp_refnum":"99001442","name":"St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"552 W. End Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.789247991000025,"lon":-73.97727586399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-11-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Late Gothic Revival Episcopal church at 552 West End Avenue, at the corner of West 87th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side, built in 1902-03 and designed by architect Charles C. Haight.","why_significant":"The church is argued to be an intact, representative example of a Late Gothic Revival church designed by Charles Coolidge Haight. It uses the full vocabulary of church architecture promoted for Episcopal buildings by the New York Ecclesiological Society. Its design expresses the liturgical formality of the Ecclesiological movement, and it retains very high integrity.","narrative":"Occupying a small corner lot at West End Avenue and West 87th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side, this Episcopal church was built in 1902-03 to designs by Charles C. Haight. Walls of rock-faced gray granite, pointed-arch windows with stone tracery, and an asymmetrical arrangement of nave, transepts, chancel, chapel, entrance porch and attached parish house define its Late Gothic Revival character. Inside, a cruciform plan separates nave and chancel in keeping with the Ecclesiological movement, and features include stained glass by John Hardman & Company, Guastavino vaulting, and interior work added about 1925 by Cram and Ferguson. The parish was founded in 1871 under Anglo-Catholic principles, and its later rector chose Haight for the new building. The church is valued as an intact example of an Episcopal church designed following Ecclesiological guidelines, and it keeps its original design, materials and workmanship beside a neighboring Methodist church.","period_of_significance":"1903-1949","architect_builder":"Charles C. Haight, architect; 1925- Cram and Ferguson, designers of decorative interiors","architectural_style":"20th Century Revival / Late Gothic Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a religious facility; the church retains a very high degree of integrity of historic architectural features.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.414125-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/99001442.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001442/0062aa2469-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001442/0062aa2469-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.Ignatius_of_Antioch_Episcopal_Church,_New_York_City_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.Ignatius_of_Antioch_Episcopal_Church,_New_York_City_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319929","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Ignatius_of_Antioch_Church_(New_York_City)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7588364"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/st-ignatius-of-antioch-episcopal-church-99001442/"}